Canadian Hours of Service?

Drive for 13hrs

On duty not driving can be another hour on top of that for a total of 14hrs on duty and driving.

Need 8hrs of consecutive and have to take 2 hours off sometime during the day and it can be split up into minimum half hour sections IIRC.

36 hours off after 70 if you are on a 70 hr cycle

 

13 hours on line 3, 14 hours on line 4, 10 hours on line 1, with 8 of those 10 hours being consecutive. Resets are 36 hours if running on cycle 1, 72 hours if running on cycle 2.

 

You all forgot about the 16 shift to get it all done. You do nothing after the 16.

 

In Canada (below the 60th parallel):

• 13 hours driving time
• 14 hours total on-duty (no driving after 14 hours on-duty)
• 16 hours workshift (elapsed time between two periods of at least 8 consecutive hours off-duty).

In the U.S. you would make a mark 14 hours from when you come on-duty which would indicate the end of your work shift. Here, it is 16 hours. During that time you can accumulate a total of 14 hours of on-duty time of which 13 hours can be driving. However, you must also show 10 hours of off-duty/sleeper time each day (in qualifying periods, i.e., periods of at least 30 minutes).

Example:

• 2:00 AM on-duty, not driving (assuming you had 8 or more hours off-duty beforehand)
• 2:30 AM driving
• 7:00 AM off-duty
• 8:00 AM driving
• 12:00 PM off-duty
• 1:00 PM driving
• 5:30 PM on-duty, not driving
• 6:00 PM off duty (for at least 8 hours)
  
  [*]OK - 13 hours driving (and no driving after 14 hours on-duty)
  [*]OK - 14 hours total on-duty
  [*]OK - 16 hours workshift
  [*]OK - 10 hours off-duty​

In the above example, if one of your off-duty periods was more than one hour, you would be in violation of the 16-hour work shift, but you would still be compliant for 13 hours driving and 14 hours on-duty.

Also, you cannot drive more than 13 hours in a day. In the U.S. you can drive as much as 14 hours in one day (less time used for on-duty, not driving), i.e., if you start at midnight, drive 11, sleep 10, drive 3 (24 hours total), you are legal. In Canada you will be in violation for more than 13 hours driving in a day even though you would not be in violation of the 13 hours driving during a work shift, or the 14 hours of on-duty or 16-hour work shift rules.

Additional rules:

• 70 hours in 7 days (Cycle 1)
• 24 hours off in the previous 14 days.
• 36 hours to reset Cycle 1 (70/7). In the past I have mis-understood this to be mandatory (as was explained to me by the lead trainer at one of the largest trucking companies in the country... it isn't. ). You can "recapture" hours on the eighth day that were used on the first day. You can run like that indefinately so long as you have at least one 24-hour period off-duty every 14 days or after 70 hours.
• 14 days logs (plus today) available for enforcement review (7 days plus today in the U.S.)

Two very helpful links:

• Commercial Vehicle Drivers Hours of Service Regulations Application Guide (from the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators)
• http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/cvse/national_safety_code/xls/Cycle1_HoS_Worksheet.xls This is a worksheet (Excel spreadsheet you can download) used by B.C. enforcement to review Cycle 1 logsheets.

 

Have to love the oilfield exemption to these rules.....

 

Can you use a split sleeper berth in Canada and how does it work ???

 

Yes you can. Any two periods adding up to 10 hours so long as the least of which is not less than 2 hours.

 

The other must also be at least 8 hours in sleeper..